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From: Stephen Winnall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Bob Harner; Chris Marasti-Georg
Subject: Re: XCSS?
Thanks to Bob and Chris for their feedback.
However, my question is not how to serve up different CSS
files depending on the target browser. What I would like to
do is create those different CSS files from a single source
(e.g. a transformer creates different CSS files from a common
source depending on what the target browser is). It seems to
me that it would be trivial if CSS had an XML syntax: my
questions are:
1) is there a suitable XML DTD or schema for something (let's call it
XCSS) which is 1-to-1
mappable to CSS?
2) does an appropriate transformation (or serialisation) from
XCSS to CSS exist?
One answer to 1) is "yes, see JXCSS". An answer to 2) is what
I am looking for.
The pipeline should look something like the following (if
you'll excuse the meta-syntax):
match *.css
generate XCSS from a single source
if browser is standards- and security-challenged {
transform the XCSS stream to suit
}
transform for I18N
transform from XCSS to CSS
serialise using TextSerializer
or perhaps the serialisation could go direct from XCSS rather
like FO or POI.
The XHTML should contain no <style> tags to preserve SoC. In
my XHTML, all I want to have is
<link href="my.css" ...>
Steve
On 12 Jan 2006, at 19:37, Stephen Winnall wrote:
I am setting up a website using Cocoon and want to generate
XHTML and
use CSS to handle the presentation. Like everyone else I am being
bitten by the fact that 90% of all browsers conform to the CSS
standard, but the browser that 90% of the users use does not :-(
(I think) I have managed to banish all the browser
dependencies (for
my site, at least) into the CSS file and I have a clean SoC-like
separation of content and presentation. So what I would now
like to do
is use Cocoon to generate different CSS files to accommodate MSIE.
I would also like to handle some I18N issues I have in the
CSS files.
Does anyone know of a way of writing something that could be called
"XCSS", i.e. CSS written in an XML syntax, which can be
transformed/serialised into proper CSS?
Apart from passing remarks (including one from the maestro at
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cocoon-dev/200003.mbox/%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) I have been unable to find any references to much like
this. I have
spent about some time trawling Google, but XSL and CSS are not good
search terms (they throw up too many results), and XCSS
doesn't throw
up anything conclusive, although the results do confirm
that I am not
the first person who wants to do this.
The project JXCSS does the other thing, i.e. convert CSS into XCSS,
but the documentation says that there is no transformation
available
to produce CSS from
XCSS:
"Stylesheets need to be written to generate and
pretty-print CSS
source code"
I will admit to being reluctant to write such a stylesheet myself
because I am already severely sidetracked doing this website, and I
need to get back to my other tasks.
I would be grateful for any hints on where to look. And if
there is a
Better Way, please let me know.
Steve
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